Obama Defends Libya Intervention
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 17th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama Defends Libya Intervention
Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
The White House told Congress on Wednesday that President Obama is not in violation of the War Powers Act as the U.S. tries to drive Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from power because the U.S. is playing a NATO support role to enforce an international no-fly zone and is not engaged in combat.A bipartisan group of House members went to court Wednesday to try to stop U.S. military involvement in Libya in what is ripening into a constitutional clash over the president's executive authority to commit military forces into a conflict without congressional approval. The White House on Wednesday…
GOP Profile Is Becoming More Madisonian
George Will, Washington Post
For a conservative Texan seeking national office, it could hardly get better than this: In a recent 48-hour span, Ted Cruz, a candidate for next year’s Republican Senate nomination for the seat being vacated by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, was endorsed by the Club for Growth PAC, FreedomWorks PAC, talk-radio host Mark Levin and Erick Erickson of RedState.com. And Cruz’s most conservative potential rival for the nomination decided to seek a House seat instead.For conservatives seeking reinforcements for Washington’s too-limited number of…
Why 70% Tax Rates Won’t Work
Alan Reynolds, Wall Street Journal
The intelligentsia of the Democratic Party is growing increasingly enthusiastic about raising the highest federal income tax rates to 70% or more. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich took the lead in February, proposing on his blog “a 70 percent marginal tax rate on the rich.” After all, he noted, “between the late 1940s and 1980 America's highest marginal rate averaged above 70 percent. Under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower it was 91 percent. Not until the 1980s did Ronald Reagan slash it to 28 percent.”That helped set the stage for Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D.,…
